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I bought a new Hans Grohe thermostatic shower mixer. It would never get hotter than warm. I tried choking the cold supply and various other tests. I took it back to Leroy Merlin and to my surprise they had a backroom with shower plumbing for testing shower mixers (I guess it must be a common problem). The man connected my mixer to...

Thank you all, for the contributions. My original concern was that it was being expensive to run. The room is always nice and warm, but the towel rail seems to stay hot regardless of the temperature set, so, the towel rail’s temperature set to 15° the room is actually 20°, but, the towel rail is warm/on. I hoped to use the inbuilt programme...

I purchased our pro version induction hob, 1250mm x 700mm which is a nine ringer , from a former employer at a very good price, it's a Siemens. A word of advice regarding wok burners, those that are available to the general public are generally about 6kW output, if you want to reproduce Chinese Take Away style food I would suggest something a...

LD, it is a maximum power / current rating for an interrupteur différentiel, overheating etc. The tripping action in case of an overload or short is the privilege of the disjoncteurs (2/10/16/20/32 amps) downstream. In the A5 revision of the French electrical code they introduced a maximum of eight disjoncteurs and new regs for the power rating of...

Will you blokes stop posting photos of your tools

Le-Dolly may take exception to that.
It depends which of the two of them is posting here.

I think I might revert to candles :lol:

Chapeau!

LD, you're not alone, so every now and then I've tried in the past to share some information about the facts behind the green EDF Linky image, you're going to save money and the planet, a copy/paste from a discussion with Alain Bazot on the website of one of the French consumer organisations. That makes two. By the way, we've seen a lot of...

Ah .. light-bulb moment 😉🙆 .. thank you both now I understand .. I will talk to OH as this would seem to solve a niggling problem we have. Previous owners of our house created a new garage and a new access to it from the kitchen but the light switch in the kitchen remains where the access to the old garage (now a room) was ..
Thanks again ..

@ MAH, sometimes I try to simplify the process of fault-finding, this time an effort to complicate your ongoing (?) fact finding mission. These fault currents to earth can be a real casse-tête . Where does all the wiring go, did they respect the (colour) regs and last but not least the problem of the common neutral in yesterday's installations...

@ Polarengineer: in France about 6. One technician to switch off the circuit pour l'éclairage , one to stand on a chair and holding the bulb firmly in his/her right/left hand (safety glasses, rubber gloves), two assistant technicians to turn the chair around (supposing an EDISON E27 srew), one safety inspector and finally an Inspector-General to...

A major effort to do something about all these different country specific wiring colours in the EU goes back to 1976, publication of the CENELEC HD 308 harmonization document, updated in 2001.

The French electrical code NF C 15-100 is rather tolerant, but one thing is not allowed: the use green/yellow and blue for other purposes than earth and...

Thanks for that :good:

I did as electricité does and took the path of least resistance :lol:

In the first house we owned I kept getting shocks off the new electric cooker we had installed - there was no gas in the village. Up till then I had cooked using a single burner camping gaz with its canister standing on our waste bin - we had very little money.

It went on for a few days, I’d touch the cooker and get a shock each time, so wasn’t...

For sure. Well, as and when I have the time.

No worries Nifty.
Just hope that if you have another problem, folk have the time to help. :roll:

I found an read through this thread while looking for my installing an electric cooker post/question
as the farcicality of the results is difficult to beat.

I replaced my flourotubes with LED tubes that I bought from Aldi. The tube came with a starter bobbin, all I had to do was change out the starter bobbin and install the LED tube, no need to rummage around with ballast transformers or mess with electrics, of which I know very little

That's OK if you're replacing functioning fluorescent tubes but...

I can't think of any time I have had all four hob plats on and the two ovens? and the micro wave? Would be a big dinner party. :D

@ Southerly, a long time ago, the same subject, TotalFrance or FrenchEntree, where I asked: what's wrong with this guy , mechanical switches, thermostat ?

VMC=

Less. tat to lug about. Only about half a ton to go.

What a thread.
ihatework - you should join some audio forums then you will really know what insults and religious/political fanatic types pop out of the ether. They attack in packs of Brownshirts.

Once the Brexit dust has settled I have my eye on a few plots for sale on high ground around where I live in the Tarn.

I am appalled at a lot of...

Spanish codes of practice are - knowing who to bung. Apparently when constructing new property you get taxed on what gauge of wire you use to this end when we rented an apartment in Guadix, Andaluz I could'nt believe it when the consumer panel tripped. So, I knocked on my neighbour's door across the hall and Marie explained that it was impossible...

Interesting article on Phones in Bathrooms:

And from the French Government: